Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.sports,americast.usa-today.sports From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: sports Mon, Oct 26 1992 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 04:43:26 EST Message-ID: 10-26 0000 DECISIONLINE: Sports USA TODAY Update Oct. 26, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network CANADA WILL REMEMBER THE TEAM: The players came from all across the USA. Baseball history, though, will remember the Toronto Blue Jays as Canada's Team, the team that beat the Atlanta Braves and won an American Dream. The Blue Jays won the World Series 4-2, after a 4-3 victory in 11 innings in Game 6 Saturday over the Braves. A victory parade is set for 1 p.m. Monday in Toronto. It ends with a rally at the SkyDome. BORDERS GOES HOME WITH MVP: Dave Winfield's double down the left-field line scored Devon White and Roberto Alomar with the deciding runs. Then, in the last of the 11th with the tying run on third, pitcher Mike Timlin fielded Otis Nixon's bunt and threw to first baseman Joe Carter to kick in the celebration. Timlin will keep the ball. Blue Jays catcher Pat Borders will take home the most valuable player trophy. COLTS STUN DOLPHINS 31-20: The 1972 Miami Dolphins' place in the National Football League's record book is secure, because the 1992 Dolphins no longer are perfect. The Indianapolis Colts (4-3) handed the Dolphins (6-1) their first loss of the season Sunday. The finishing touch to a 31-20 win came when defensive end Steve Emtman intercepted Dan Marino's pass and puffed 90 yards for a touchdown as time expired. CHARGERS TOP BRONCOS 24-21: The San Diego Chargers (3-4) ended John Elway's late-game heroics and edged the Denver Broncos 24-21 Sunday. In other games: Washington 15, Minnesota 13; Dallas 28, L.A. Raiders 13; Philadelphia 7, Phoenix 3; Cleveland 19, New England 17; Pittsburgh 27, Kansas City 3; Chicago 30, Green Bay 10; Houston 26, Cincinnati 10; Detroit 38, Tampa Bay 7; N.Y. Giants 23, Seattle 10. 19 INJURED AT JOE ROBBIE: Nineteen people were injured - some seriously - after fans pounding on a glass partition at Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium broke it and sent glass flying into the lower level during Sunday's NFL game. Safety officials said none of the injuries was life-threatening. Dolphins media director Harvey Greene said it was the first such accident involving the 6-year-old stadium's structure. MIAMI STILL ON TOP: Miami held on to the top spot in the USA TODAY:CNN college football poll after a 43-23 trouncing of Virginia Tech. Miami (7-0) had just 17 more points than No. 2 Washington (7-0). No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Alabama and No. 5 Texas A&M held on to their positions in the top five. The rest of the top 10 stayed the same, also: Florida State, Nebraska, Georgia, Colorado and Notre Dame. PETTY WINS AC DELCO FROM POLE: If Kyle Petty could bottle the formula he uses to consistently rocket past the competition at North Carolina Motor Speedway, he'd be a rich man. Leading all but eight of 492 laps in Sunday's AC Delco 500, Petty picked up $54,300 for the victory plus $98,800 from Unocal for winning from the pole - a total of $153,100. Petty has won three of the last six races at the Rockingham, N.C. track. PRICE TOPS $1M MARK: Nick Price became the PGA Tour's fourth 1992 millionaire Sunday when Steve Elkington missed a 3-foot putt on the second playoff hole in the HEB Texas Open at San Antonio. Price birdied three of the last four holes for a 5-under-par 66. Elkington, playing with Price, shot 65 to tie at 21-under-par 263. Price earned $162,000 for his fifth PGA Tour victory and has won $1,092,659. FLOYD WINS SECURITY PACIFIC: Ray Floyd, who has won on the PGA and Senior PGA Tours this year, won his second senior title Sunday. He shot 62 for an 18-under-par 195, two shots ahead of Japan's Isao Aoki, in the Security Pacific Classic at Los Angeles. O'BRIEN TO BE HONORED: Decathlete Dan O'Brien will receive the 25th annual Tanqueray Amateur Athlete Achievement Award Wednesday in New York. Past winners include Shaquille O'Neal, Jim Abbott, Grete Waitz, Bo Jackson, Chris Mullin, Mary Slaney, Herschel Walker, Sugar Ray Leonard and Olga Korbut. AUGUSTA CONSIDERED BAD CHOICE: A top black official in Atlanta said Saturday the Augusta National Golf Club's history of discrimination makes it a poor selection as the venue for a possible golf event in the 1996 Olympics. Fulton County Commission Chairman Michael Lomax criticized Atlanta Olympic officials for plans to hold a golf event at Augusta. Augusta still has just one black among 300 members. SPASSKY IS ILL AGAIN: The 25th game in the $5 million chess rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, scheduled for Sunday, was postponed in Belgrade until Wednesday because Spassky has a cold, match officials said. The postponement, Spassky's fourth of the match, is the last the Russian-born player may request. Fisher leads 8-4 after the duo battled to a draw Saturday. FLAMES LEADING SMYTHE: Gary Leeman scored two goals and Al MacInnis had a goal and an assist as the Calgary Flames moved into first place in the Smythe Division with a 4-0 shutout of Edmonton. Calgary improved to 6-3-0 as Edmonton dropped to 1-8-1. In other games Sunday: Chicago 8, Detroit 2; Boston 5, Vancouver 3. DE SOUZA, SOMERS WIN MARATHON: Brazil's Jose Cesar De Souza broke away from the pack at the 14-mile point and Linda Somers of Pleasant Hills, Calif., built a two-minute lead to win the men's and women's divisions of Sunday's Chicago Marathon. De Souza, 29, finished the 26-mile, 385-yard race in 2 hours, 16 minutes, 14 seconds. Somers, 31, won in 2:37:14. 24-HOUR TELEPHONE INFORMATION: USA TODAY Sports Hot Line. 95 cents a minute. 1-900-555-5555. Sports Editor: Kate Coughlin. (919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal law. This article is copyright 1992 Gannett News Service. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM